Does massage speed up recovery?

Massage is used a lot in elite sport and one of the reasons is to speed up recovery. So what does the research say? We use Sports massage at our clinics in Stoke-on-Trent and our prices are very affordable and we even run a Sports massage loyalty scheme where you can get a free massage session.

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Online Physiotherapy

Put simply this is Physio done via either telephone or video over the internet. Skype and facetime are examples of this.

Contrary to popular belief online physiotherapy can be very effective and it can help the same injuries that face to face physio can help. I have helped many people with injuries such as disc prolapses, tennis elbow, neck pain and much more).